SANDRA GUNNING
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
sgunning@umich.edu
Curriculum Vitae
April 2012
Professor, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Program in American Culture
Faculty Associate, Women’s Studies Department, 2008Faculty Associate, Department of English Language and Literature, 2011Primary Mailing Address/Fax Number
Department of Afroamerican and African Studies: 4700 Haven Hall, 505 South State Street, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045, (734) 763-5525; FAX (734) 763-3128.
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EDUCATION:
PhD in English, University of California, Berkeley, 1991.
BA in English, magna cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Moving Home: Gender, Travel, and Self-Invention in Nineteenth-Century African Diasporic
Literature (forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2011).
Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas, co-edited with Tera W. Hunter
and Michele Mitchell, a Gender and History (special issue volume, London: Blackwell, 2004).
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt, co-edited with Nancy Bentley (Bedford Cultural
Edition, Bedford Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2002).
Rape, Race and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 (Race and Culture
Series, Oxford University Press, 1996).
Articles and Book Sections
Rape, Race and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 (Race and Culture
Series, Oxford University Press, 1996). Chapter 1 “Re-Membering Blackness After Reconstruction
reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism ed., Thomas J. Schoenbert and Lawrence J.
Trudeau (Thomson Gale, 2005).
“Introduction,” co-written with Tera W. Hunter and Michele Mitchell, Gender and History 15 #3
(November 2003): 397-407; reprinted in Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender Sexuality and African
Diasporas, co-edited with Tera W. Hunter and Michele Mitchell (London: Blackwell, 2004).
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“Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background,” co-written with Nancy Bentley for The Marrow
of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt, Bedford Cultural Edition (Bedford Books/St. Martin’s Press,
2002).
“Traveling with Her Mother’s Tastes: The Negotiation of Gender, Race and Location in Wonderful
Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands” Signs 26 #4 (Summer 2001, “Globalization and
Gender” special issue): 949-81. Reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism Vol. 147, ed.
Russell Whitaker (Thomson Gale, 2005).
“Nancy Prince and the Politics of Mobility, Home and Diasporic (Mis)Identification,” American
Quarterly 53 #1 (March 2001): 32-69.
“Now That They Have Us, What’s the Point?: The Challenge of Hiring to Create Diversity” in
Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower? ed. Shirley Geok-lin Lim and María
Herrera-Sobek (New York: MLA Publications, 2000).
“Reading and Redemption in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” in Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays, ed. Deborah M. Garfield and Rafia Zafar (Cambridge
University Press, 1996). Reprinted in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Norton Critical Edition,
ed. Nellie Y. McKay and Frances Smith Foster (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000).
“Kate Chopin’s Local Color Fiction and the Politics of White Supremacy.” Arizona Quarterly 51
#3 (Autumn 1995): 61-86. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism v. 68, ed. Joseph Palminsano (2004).
Short Essays and Encyclopedia Entries
“Re-Crafting Contemporary Female Voices: The Revival of Quilt Making Among Rural Women of
Eastern India,” Feminist Studies 26 #3 (Fall 2000): 719-726.
“The Woman's Era,” The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, ed. William L.
Andrews, Trudier Harris, Frances Smith Foster (Oxford University Press, 1997).
“Violence,” The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, ed. William L. Andrews,
Trudier Harris, Frances Smith Foster (Oxford University Press, 1997).
Selected Book Reviews
“African Diaspora Studies and Gender,” in-progress book review essay for Feminist Studies, 2008.
The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston, by Albert J. von Frank, in
Nineteenth-Century Prose 28 (Spring 2001): 187-91.
The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious
Masculinity, by Maggie Montesinos Sale in Modern Language Quarterly 60 #4 (December 1999):
528-530.
Archibald Grimké: Portrait of a Black Independent by Dickson D. Bruce in Nineteenth-Century
Prose 23 (Fall 1996): 137-140.
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The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction by Ann duCille;
Written By Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 by Frances Smith
Foster; Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
by Claudia Tate in Signs 21 #2 (Winter 1996): 455-459.
Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism by Kenneth W. Warren in
American Literature 66 (December 1994): 843-844.
A Scholar’s Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding edited by Faith Berry in
Mississippi Quarterly 46 (1993): 326-30
Gender, Race and Region in the Writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart and Kate Chopin by
Helen Taylor in Leggere Donna (Italy) 25 (1990): 11.
SERVICE
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Executive Committee, Department of Women’s Studies, 2011-2013.
DAAS, Course Planning Committee, Fall 2011.
Graduate Studies Sub-Committee, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, 2011-2013.
Member, Rackham Graduate School Executive Board, 2009-10.
Member, Graduate Committee, the Department of Women’s Studies 2009-2010.
Interim Graduate Chair, Program in American Culture, Winter 2008
Tenure Review Committee for jointly appointed candidates, English/American Culture/CAAS,
2011; 2009 (chair); 2008; 2007; 2006 (chair); 2005 (chair); 2004 (chair); 1998 (chair); 1997
(co-chair).
Graduate Chair, Program in American Culture, 2000-2001; 2002-03, Winter 2008.
Graduate Admissions Committee, Program in American Culture, Winter 1998 (as chair); Winter
1999; ex-officio Winter 2001; ex-officio Winter 2003.
Graduate Admissions Committee, English, Winter 1994.
Co-Founder (with Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and Sonia Rose) and steering committee member, the
Atlantic Studies Initiative, 1997-1999; 2006-2007.
Graduate Committee, Program in American Culture, Fall 1997; ex-officio 2000-01; ex-officio 20022003.
Salary Committee, Program in American Culture, Winter 2002; Winter 2003.
Rackham Merit Fellowship Selection Committee, University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School,
Winter 1999.
Chair, Committee on Long-Range Hiring Priorities for Ethnic Literatures, English, Winter 1998.
Member, African-American Literature Hiring Committee, English/CAAS, 1995-96; 2002-03.
Chair, African-American Literature Hiring Committee, English/CAAS 1998-99.
Committee member, CAAS/Women’s Studies Hiring Committee, Winter 1996.
Committee member, Latino/a Studies Hiring Committee, American Culture, Winter-Fall 1995.
Chair, Program By-Laws Committee, Program in American Culture, Winter 1998.
Executive Committee, English, Winter 1995; 1995-96; 1997-98.
Executive Committee, Program in American Culture, Winter 1998; ex-officio 2000-02; ex-officio
2002-03.
Walter Rodney Essay Context Competition, CAAS, Winter 1998.
University Mentorship Program, 1993-94.
Composition Committee, English, 1991-92.
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External
Executive Council, American Studies Association, 2012-2013.
General Council, American Studies Association, 2012-2015.
Minority Scholars Committee, American Studies Association, 2010-2013; as chair, 2011-2012.
Selection Committee for the 2000-01 Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
Executive Committee, Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature, Modern
Language Association, 1999-2001
Selection Committee for the 1999-2000 Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program
EDITORIAL WORK:
Feminist Studies, editorial collective, 1996-2005
Gender and History, Guest Co-Editor, special issue on “African Diasporas” 15.3 (November 2003)
American Quarterly, Editorial Advisory Board, 2001-2003
REVIEWER: Duke University Press; University of North Carolina Press; Princeton University
Press; Blackwell Publishers; University of Wisconsin Press; University of Michigan Press;
Signs; Meridians; Feminist Studies; American Quarterly.
ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association, 1989American Studies Association, 1991Organization of American Historians, 2004Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS), 1992-1999